"Kusuo-kun, you're finally back!" Shion threw herself into his arms.
Just as Kusuo was about to speak, another figure pounced on him.
"Shion, you..." Kusuo wasn't sure when Shion had become so clingy. "How are you today?" he asked, gently touching her forehead. "Are you feeling better?"
Thankfully, it was dark and the lights were off, so Kusuo didn't notice the faint blush creeping onto Shion's cheeks. The memory of her embarrassment earlier that day made her flustered all over again.
"Right, this is for you," Kusuo said, taking the Heart of Gelel from his robes and placing it in her palm.
"What is this?" Shion asked, curiously examining the green stone in her hand. But when she closed her hand around it, she was shocked to feel a change occurring in her body.
"How do you feel?" Kusuo looked at Shion. Her expression seemed somewhat pained. After a while, her face slowly returned to normal.
"It looks like Shion's body may have suffered some kind of injury in the past."
Hearing this, Kusuo looked at Shion in surprise. As far as he could remember, Shion shouldn't have been injured. Why did she have an old wound?
"Do you know what kind of injury it is?"
Kuroko shook his head. "I'm not sure. The injury on Lady Shion's body must be very severe. But... it feels a bit like something from the Hidden Star Village."
The name "Hidden Star Village" made Kusuo frown immediately. In the original story, that small village had caused a lot of trouble for Naruto and his team. He never thought that trouble would now fall on his own shoulders.
"You watch over Shion here. I'll be right back." After saying this, Kusuo prepared to leave. But knowing him well, Kuroko knew he was planning to go cause trouble in the Star Village. While the Star Village wasn't large, it had a decent defense, especially with the meteorite from outer space in their possession.
Kusuo formed a one-handed seal, and in a short while, the Demon Slayer Corps had assembled.
"Lord Kusuo, your orders," Ibiki Morino greeted him respectfully.
"I need you to go to the Hidden Star Village immediately and investigate the situation. See what's going on there, that someone dared to poison Shion."
"Yes, sir." With that, the figures vanished from the room.
Shion still held the stone tightly in her hand, and the green energy emanating from it continued to flow through her body. It was clear that the full power of the Heart of Gelel had not yet been unleashed.
About three to five days later, the Demon Slayer Corps finally sent a message back. Kusuo opened the scroll they had sent. It clearly marked the route they had taken to find the Star Village. From the route, he could tell that the village's location had changed. According to his memory from the original story, the Star Village should have been easy to find. But on the map drawn by the Corps, its location was extremely remote and difficult to access.
Thinking of Shion lying sick in bed, a murderous glint flashed in Kusuo's eyes.
"They must be trying to seal something."
Hearing Shion's voice, Kusuo looked at her in surprise. "What do you mean?"
Shion pointed to several spots on the scroll. "These locations can form a sealing formation. I don't know what they're sealing, but this formation looks almost identical to the one used to seal Mōryō."
The name "Mōryō" made Kusuo frown. "One Mōryō in this world was already a disaster. How can there be a second one?"
Shion shook her head. "That, I don't know. My duty back then was primarily to protect that sealing formation."
"Hanabi, can you look after your sister here?" Kusuo walked over to Hanabi and patted her head. Hanabi nodded firmly. "Don't worry. No matter what happens this time, I will definitely protect my sister."
Hearing this, Kusuo felt reassured. He gently patted Shion's shoulder.
"To the Hidden Star Village! Let's go."
Under the cover of night, Kusuo and Shion set off for the Star Village. With Kusuo's strength, their travel time was much shorter than that of the Demon Slayer Corps. In about two days, they arrived at the outskirts of the village. Kusuo stood in the forest, observing the scene before them.
"They're definitely up to something," Shion said, watching the front warily. From her vantage point, she could clearly see many jonin and chunin outside the village. There were also deep tracks, as if they had been dragging something massive. She couldn't tell what it was, but it had left deep gouges in the earth.
"Those tracks were likely made by the Star Village's meteorite," Kusuo said softly.
"Lord Kusuo." Ibiki Morino's voice suddenly came from behind him.
"Mhm."
"After several days of observation, we can roughly surmise that Lady Shion's body has been contaminated by the power of the Star Village's meteorite."
Hearing this, Kusuo's eyes narrowed, a cold, murderous intent flashing within them. "And she is still unconscious, I don't know what those people did to her." Kusuo clenched his fist so tightly it seemed ready to strike an enemy at any moment.
"There have been multiple cases like this. Basically, all of them involve people who have had contact with the Star Village," Kuroko added.
This piqued Kusuo's interest. Multiple cases? This was a clear indication that the Star Village was making an enemy of all nations. No wonder they had moved to this godforsaken place. Suddenly, everything started to make sense.
"It is said that their leader, the Hoshikage, has recently obtained immense power. The Hidden Star Village is now preparing to crush the former Five Great Nations."
Kusuo, however, just glared at the Star Village with fury. Whatever the Hoshikage was planning was irrelevant to him. The only thing that mattered was that they had hurt Shion.
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